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Sonny Rollins Quotes & Sayings

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I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress ... so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair. — Sonny Rollins

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn. — Sonny Rollins

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not. — Sonny Rollins

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. — Sonny Rollins

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years. — Sonny Rollins

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound. — Sonny Rollins

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. — Sonny Rollins

I hate music. I wasted my life. — Sonny Rollins

Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it — Ikechukwu Joseph

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. — Sonny Rollins

Jazz never ends ... it just continues. — Sonny Rollins

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25. — Sonny Rollins

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons. — Sonny Rollins

Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do? — Christina Aguilera

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins

No one is original. Everyone is derivative. — Sonny Rollins

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society. — Sonny Rollins

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future. — Sonny Rollins

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. — Sonny Rollins

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. — Sonny Rollins

What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see? — Lee L Jampolsky

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady. — Tawni O'Dell

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music. — Sonny Rollins

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind. — Sonny Rollins

Let us forgive, let us trust.
Let us love, and let us be just. — Debasish Mridha

My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words. — Eyden I.